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Nebraska voters may decide next year whether to legalize casino gambling in a ballot measure that could tip the number of states that allow commercial gambling into the majority. Supporters of legalized casinos have launched a petition drive to place the issue on the 2020 ballot with financial backing from the economic development corporation owned […]

GORI, Georgia — Here are just a few of the fun facts that visitors learn during a guided tour of the Stalin Museum in Gori, the small Georgian town where the former Soviet leader was born. Joseph Stalin was a good singer. He wrote poems. During his reign, 9,000 state enterprises were started. One of

At a spacious Victorian in the heart of California’s Napa Valley, light glows from the windows as guests inside study old tools and taste new wines. 1881 Napa, a wine history museum and tasting salon, opened this month in Oakville, about 60 miles (97 kilometers) north of San Francisco. It offers self-guided tours on Napa

BARCELONA, Spain — Every year, more than a million people visit the home of Ana Viladomiu in Barcelona. She does her best to avoid them. Ms. Viladomiu lives in La Pedrera, the last house built by Antoni Gaudí, the brilliant Catalan architect who died after being hit by a tram in 1926. His works around

[Read all Times reporting on the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. | Sign up for the weekly Science Times email.] HOUSTON — After Gene Kranz retired in the 1990s, he started to give occasional tours to VIPs at NASA’s Johnson Space Center. It was there in the Apollo Mission Control Center that

Newark Liberty International Airport grounded all arriving and departing flights on Saturday morning after a flight that had departed from La Guardia Airport had to make an emergency landing at Newark, officials said on Twitter. Airport officials described what happened on Twitter as an “airport emergency,” but specific details were not immediately available. The flights

Whether you’re just peering at the sparrows in your neighborhood park or searching for California condors in Pinnacles National Park, the right tools will help you both see the birds and identify them. From a pair of binoculars that one ornithologist called good enough to rival his own professional-level pair, to a wide-brimmed hat that’ll

Rates From $275 The Basics With a soft launch in December, the Dream Nashville, Printers Alley, a 168-room boutique hotel, opened officially in March in a downtown historic district, after a campaign to win over locals reeling from a breakneck building boom and too many lost preservation battles. The Nashville developer 4PANT LLC and the

The upcoming travel season means taking some much-deserved time off, visiting new cities and bumping shoulders with the nearly 100 million other Americans who plan to do the same this year. Fighting your way through traffic and crowds is definitely a downside of traveling, so it’s understandable if you want to skip the obvious tourist

Make yourself known If you’re fishing for a deal, you have to get in the water. Joining a hotel’s loyalty program, which is free, often automatically gives you a discount on rates starting around 5 percent, depending on your status, if booked directly with the hotel. For smaller or independent hotels, sign up for their